Saxeney v. Panis
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on August 29, 1919, by an alleged assignee of a lease against the owners of the leased premises for specific performance of a covenant of renewal contained in the lease. In the Superior Court the suit was referred to a master, who filed a report to which no objection or exception was taken. Material facts found by the master are described in the opinion.
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Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on August 29, 1919, by an alleged assignee of a lease against the owners of the leased premises for specific performance of a covenant of renewal contained in the lease. In the Superior Court the suit was referred to a master, who filed a report to which no objection or exception was taken. Material facts found by the master are described in the opinion. Later the suit was heard by Sisk, J., by whose order an interlocutory decree was entered with the consent of the parties confirming the master’s report, and later by Wait, J., by whose order a final…
1Opinion of the CourtJenney, J.
On June 1, 1914, the Twenty Five Associates of ' Roxbury, Inc., leased premises in Arlington, Massachusetts, for a term of five years from May 31, 1914, to Andrew Pañis and Leo Saxeney who were partners. The lease contained a covenant on the part of the lessees against assignment or underletting in whole or in part “ without first obtaining on, each occasion the consent in writing of the lessor.” The lease provided that the lessees should have at its expiration a right of renewal for the term of five years. This suit was brought by Saxeney alone to enforce the renewal of the lease.
On January…
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